Danny Yee wrote:
> But who moderates the moderators list? <grin>
It is a riotous free-for-all!
My comment on 2.5 gig routers or data links or whatever was based on
this traceroute:
s11-1-0.br1.SFO1.gblx.net
pos2-3-155M.cr1.SFO1.gblx.net
pos9-0-2488M.cr1.SNV2.gblx.net
pos0-0-2488m.hr5.snv2.gblx.net
www.egroups.com
Regarding advertising:
> Seems like a steep price to pay to me. Lots of places will host
> lists without advertising for very nominal fees. I get a list free
> with my web site.
I didn't establish the list there - someone else did and wanted to pass
it on to me. There are banner ads on the website and each email begins
with something like:
-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~>
iFriends Live Fetish VideoChat Search 1000s of Fetish vidchat rooms.
Itís like CU-SeeMe on Steroids Ö NetMeeting with an attitude.
Live. Real people, real chat, real time. Not just chat... VideoChat!
http://no-doubt-personalised-URL-to-fine-tune-their-targeting
---------------------------------------------------------------------_->
It always seems to be the same ad - so I don't see it after a while. It
is for an egroups service, so it seems they don't yet have any paying
advertisers yet for the spankophile demographic. No-one has complained
about it - but it is not my preference.
> > They have automatic systems to handle bouncing email to list members
> > and to suspend the problem addresses after a while.
>> Using VERP, I imagine. EZMLM seems like one of the most reliable
> at doing this, but it requires you to be running qmail. I think
> for most purposes I'd go with Mailman running on top of Postfix...
> But let's not get technical.
Lets!
egroups.com uses qmail. I haven't sussed their web server or OS yet.
After a few searches I find that VERP means "Variable Envelope Return
Paths" - an approach for figuring out which addresses are bouncing:
http://www.qmail.org/koobera/www/proto/verp.txt
I am running Postfix here on my home/office server and if I was going to
run any more mailing lists, I think I would install GNU Mailman instead
of clunky old Majordomo.
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html
- Robin